Project Logs

After a fallout with pimoroni I'm no longer allowed to use the sloth badge design. So here is the new design:

Just kidding! I've bought a soic8 adapter that I will solder into place and make this a dedicated SOIC8 programmer for the kit chips! I haven't heard from pimoroni in a while though, need to ping them in a tweet some time.

After a little email exchange with Paul from pimoroni we agreed on me doing a small run of badges on @Tindie is alright with everyone, including their designer, so I will finally do a batch run with @oshpark for the first time.

The code has some potential, needs some cleaning up and some options for animations like I have added to my #K.I.T.T. - KNIGHT RIDER badge/brooch. I should use a higher value of resistors for the LEDs, they blink quite bright.

Part wise I'm all set, everything is ordered so I can sell them as kits, but might add soldered up options like I did with Kitt.

Somewhere along I had it go to sleep just fine, but it didn't wake up. Now it wakes up fine, but doesn't want to go to sleep. Seems like I don't have the millis stuff right anymore, I don't get to where the comment "// HOW DO I GET HERE?" is. Too tired to see it,
gonna go to bed.

seems like they use 1.1mA in sleep mode, which isn't really good for a coin cell that has around 230mAh of power - 9 days of doing nothing o.O so with the right settings my sloth badge will already last a lot longer! nice :3

not selling them yet, I don't even have my first prototype boards here :D if you still want to try it, feel free to do your own sanity check for the boards and order them, I can't make any promises, but it should work. Software isn't done either, but I wanted to work on it this evening. Thank you for your interest :)

yup :) got a proof of concept for the power down to 0.1uA (if I recall correctly, what my multimeter showed (correctly?) :D that was important to me, to play around with that and get to know the registers etc a bit better